Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday June 28, 2013 Student Loan News: 1. Regulators seek flexibility from private student loan lenders:  Regulators on Tuesday called on private student loan lenders to offer more flexible repayment terms to borrowers at a time when many are struggling to pay off their debt. Testifying before the Senate Banking Committee, federal regulators said private student loans constitute a small portion of overall student debt, but many people are struggling to repay their loans and delinquency rates for such loans are high. […]

Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday  May 17, 2013 Student Loan News: 1. The truth about student loans:  As I finish up my second year of life in the “real world,” more and more is being said about the dangers of student loans and how they are our nation’s next big financial crisis. This is both alarming and refreshing. Whenever I talked about student loan debt before, I felt guilty. Getting accepted to and going to college is still such a privilege to a good portion of the population, so why would I ever complain about how much it costs? It was my choice to attend a private liberal arts college, so I should accept the consequences and be quiet about it. That said, I do not want to complain, rather relay a sense of reality that was not clearly presented to me while I was at Knox, attending classes, studying in the library, going to the Gizmo, soaking up sun on Post Lawn and waiting eternally for Flunk Day. More Details: http://www.theknoxstudent.com/news/2013/05/15/the-truth-about-student-loans/ […]

Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday  May 10, 2013 Student Loan News: 1. Used Wisely, Student Loans Can Improve Your Life:  Student loans changed my life, but in a different way than most. I started school at a community college in the Bay Area after going through a divorce and finding myself with custody of my two sons, 3 and 4. I was a full-time dad, and worked full-time while taking up to 20 units per semester at my local community college. I received subsidized daycare and dropped my boys there on the way to class, and picked them up on the way home. My mom would watch my boys when I went to work in the evenings as a waiter at a local steak house. I ran a window-cleaning service on weekends when I wasn't working at the restaurant, and I managed to avoid student loans for the first four years of college. View full story: http://news.yahoo.com/used-wisely-student-loans-improve-life-212500339.html […]

Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday  May 3, 2013 Student Loan News: 1. How to Get Out of Student Loan Debt:  More and more student loans are becoming the most problematic debt anyone can own. At some point in the past couple of decades, student loans went from a leg up to financial slavery. There is a lot of information out there about how to deal with troublesome student loan debt and payments. But I thought I'd put together the ultimate no-holds-barred guide on how to deal with student loan debt that becomes unaffordable. […]